Rabindranath Tagore

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

His love for me seemed to overflow my limits by its flood of wealth and service. But my necessity was more for giving than foe receiving; for love is a vagabond, who can make his flowers bloom in the wayside dust, better than in the crystal jars kept in the drawing-room.

Children are living beings - more living than grown-up people who have built shells of habit around themselves. Therefore it is absolutely necessary for their mental health and development that they should not have mere schools for their lessons, but a world whose guiding spirit is personal love.

Life is indefinite--a bundle of contradictions. We men, with our ideas, strive to give it a particular shape by melting it into a particular mould--into the definiteness of success.

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

We live in the world when we love it.

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.